Videos tagged with "eco"

Bangladesh concrete project [01:34]
Bangladesh coastal area (this video is specifically Cox's Bazaar) does not have aggregate, so they making bricks and chip away to create aggregate. This was the only task I saw women and children performing outside the home. The mixed concrete was carried (by men) in baskets balanced atop the head, up two flights to the floor where it was being poured. (recorded in 1999)
Tags: Bangladesh, concrete, mixing, manual, labor

Impacting Little Lives in Bangladesh [05:26]
Impact Foundation Bangladesh : A small organization, which began with a few volunteers, has grown into an institution that has over 162 full-time employees and several hundred community volunteers. The projects of IFB has gained national and international recognition and helped to indicate our commitment to eradicate preventable disability from rural Bangladesh. A Leg To Stand On has a continuing loyal partnership with Impact Foundation Bangladesh. Supporting and empowering disabled children by directly funding the cost of their orthopaedic procedures, appliances, corrective surgeries & rehabilitation - Giving them mobility and independence in their lives. impactfoundationbd.org altso.org ©WorkingEdgePictures
Tags: ALTSO, Disabled Children, Children, Disability, IFB, Impact Foundation Bangladesh, Bangladesh, Hospital, Aid Organization, health, Rehabilitation, surgery, orthopedic, mobility, Developing World, legs

Foot Prints in Dhaka (Rickshaw) 1 [12:02]
If you are in Dhaka even for a day, on the streets, something that's bound to strike your eyes... the brightly-decorated three wheeled Pedi cabs or cycle rickshaws... after all Dhaka is the "Rickshaw Capital of the World"...
Tags: Dhaka, Pulled Rickshaw, Bangladesh, South Asia, TV Southasia, Rickshaw, travel, Foot prints, Abhishek Sinha Roy, abhisheksinharoy

AsiaOneTV: UN ESCAP - ECONOMIC & SOCIAL COMMISSION for ASIA-PACIFIC [04:28]
MaximsNewsNetwork: 08 January 2012, WorldLeadersTV: Bangkok, Thailand - The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia-Pacific (UN ESCAP) presents a video about its history and its future as the hub of UN activities in the 48 countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Dr. Noeleen Heyzer is the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP, and holds the rank of United Nations Under-Secretary-General. Since taking office in August 2007 as the first woman to ever occupy this position, Dr. Heyzer has championed institutional change and developed ESCAP as a regional hub to help build stronger economic and social foundations for sustainable and inclusive societies in the Asia Pacific region. Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP, presented Asian leaders with a new development plan that is less reliant on exports to the West but places emphasizes instead on greater connectivity within the region. Dr. Heyzer spoke in Cha-am Hua Hin, Thailand, at the Fourth East Asia Summit, that brings together the leaders of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Australia, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and New Zealand. Headquartered in Bangkok, United Nations ESCAP is the largest of the UN's five Regional Commissions in terms of its membership, population served and area covered. The only inter ...
Tags: Asia, Pacific, UN, united_nations, Thailand, ESCAP, India, China, noeleen_heyzer, worldleaderstv, worldleaderstelevision, maximsnews, maximsnewsnetwork, asiapacificnewstv, asiapacifictvnews, asiapacificpeopletv, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Ja

Cox's Bazar -- The Longest Sea beach in the World !! Bangladesh. HD [01:30]
Cox's Bazar (Bengali: কক্সবাজার) is a town, a fishing port and district headquarters in Bangladesh. It is known for its wide sandy beach which is one of the world's longest natural sandy sea beach.It is an unbroken 125 km sandy sea beach with a gentle slope. It is located 150 km south of Chittagong. Cox's Bazar is also known by the name "Panowa", the literal translation of which means "yellow flower". Its other old name was "Palongkee". The modern Cox's Bazar derives its name from Captain Cox (died 1799), an officer serving in British India. In the 18th century, an officer of British East India Company, Captain Hiram Cox was appointed as the Superintendent of Palongkee outpost after Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal. Captain Cox was specially mobilised to deal with a century long conflict between Arakan refugees and local Rakhains. The Captain was a compassionate soul and the plight of the people touched his heart. He embarked upon the mammoth task of rehabilitating refugees in the area, and made significant progress. A premature death took Captain Cox in 1799 before he could finish his work. But the work he had done earned him a place in the hearts of the locals and to commemorate his role in rehabilitation work a market was established and named after him as Cox's Bazaar ("Cox's Market"). Although Cox's Bazar is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Bangladesh, it has yet to become a major international tourist destination, due to lack of ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Cox's, Bazar, Beach, Sea, Southeast Asia, World, Friends, Ocean, Best, Forever, Record, New, Waves, Palm, Chittagong, usa, uk, india, Best Friends, Florida, United, Surfing, Sand, America, States, Europe, Germany, England, European Union, Cana